Lucile Watson

Watson was born in Quebec and raised in Ottawa, the daughter of an officer in the British Army. Despite his wishes, she traveled to New York City and enrolled in a dramatic school.{{cite news|title=Lucile Watson, Type|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4621780/the_washington_herald/|agency=The Washington Herald|date=February 9, 1919|location=D.C, Washington|page=15|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=March 14, 2016}} {{Open access}}

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Watson was primarily a stage actress, appearing in 39 Broadway plays.{{cite web|title=Lucile Watson|url=http://www.playbill.com/person/detail/92435/lucile-watson|website=Playbill|accessdate=14 March 2016}}

In perhaps her most acclaimed performance, Watson portrayed Fanny Farrelly in playwright Lillian Hellman's anti-fascist dramatic stage play Watch on the Rhine on Broadway in 1941, starring Paul Lukas.{{Cite news|title=Obituaries|author=|date=June 27, 1962|work=Variety|page=63|quote=Perhaps her most highly praised performance was as Fanny Farrelly in Lillian Hellman's anti-Nazi play, 'Watch on the Rhine,' which starred Paul Lucas and opened in 1941.|id={{ProQuest|1032424803}}}} Two years later in Hollywood, she and Lukas reprised their roles in the film adaptation,{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/1091 |title=Watch on the Rhine |website=IBDB.com |publisher=Internet Broadway Database }} for which Watson received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.United Press (February 7, 1944). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H1kbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j0wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1902%2C2783891&dq=%22lucile+watson%22 "Three Former Winners Listed in 'Oscar' Race"]. The Pittsburgh Press. p. 9. Retrieved June 4, 2023.

Watson died on June 24, 1962.{{cite news|title=Lucile Watson, Actress, 83, Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4621586/the_bridgeport_post/|agency=The Bridgeport Post|date=June 25, 1962|location=Connecticut, Bridgeport|page=24|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=March 14, 2016}} {{Open access}}

• No More Ladies (1934) as Mrs. Fanny Townsend
• Watch on the Rhine (1941) as Fanny Farrelly{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/watch-on-the-rhine-1091 |title=Watch on the Rhine |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |access-date=2017-02-28}}

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• The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) as Actress Backstage (uncredited)
• What Every Woman Knows (1934) as La Contessa la Brierre
• The Bishop Misbehaves (1935) as Lady Emily
• The Garden of Allah (1936) as Mother Superior Josephine
• A Woman Rebels (1936) as Betty Bumble
• Three Smart Girls (1936) as Martha
• The Young in Heart (1938) as Mrs. Jennings
• Sweethearts (1938) as Mrs. Marlowe
• Made for Each Other (1939) as Mrs. Harriet Mason
• The Women (1939) as Mrs. Morehead
• Waterloo Bridge (1940) as Lady Margaret Cronin
• Florian (1940) as Countess
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) as Mrs. Custer
• Rage in Heaven (1941) as Mrs. Monrell
• Footsteps in the Dark (1941) as Mrs. Archer
• The Great Lie (1941) as Aunt Ada
• Model Wife (1941) as J.J. Benson
• Watch on the Rhine (1943) as Fanny Farrelly
• Uncertain Glory (1944) as Mme. Maret
• Till We Meet Again (1944) as Mother Superior
• The Thin Man Goes Home (1945) as Mrs. Charles
• Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) as Aunt Jessica Hamilton
• My Reputation (1946) as Mrs. Mary Kimball
• Never Say Goodbye (1946) as Mrs. Hamilton
• Song of the South (1946) as Grandmother
• The Razor's Edge (1946) as Louisa Bradley
• Ivy (1947) as Mrs. Gretorex
• The Emperor Waltz (1948) as Princess Bitotska
• Julia Misbehaves (1948) as Mrs. Packett
• That Wonderful Urge (1948) as Aunt Cornelia Farley
• Little Women (1949) as Aunt March
• Everybody Does It (1949) as Mrs. Blair
• Let's Dance (1950) as Serena Everett
• Harriet Craig (1950) as Celia Fenwick
• My Forbidden Past (1951) as Aunt Eula Beaurevel

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120716222155/http://www.classicimages.com/1998/october98/watsonlucile.html Lucile Watson biography by Film historian T. R. Bourgeois]

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• {{cite book |last= Alistair |first= Rupert |title= The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age |chapter= Lucile Watson |pages= 249–251 |date= 2018 |edition= First |type= softcover |publisher= Independently published |location= Great Britain |isbn = 978-1-7200-3837-5}}

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